On the Upper Mississippi

Edwin Whitefield (American (born in England), 1816–1892)

1868

Medium/Technique Pen and ink with colored washes over graphite

Dimensions Sheet: 23.7 x 31.1 cm (9 5/16 x 12 1/4 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875

Accession Number53.2486

ClassificationsDrawings

Catalogue Raisonné Karolik cat. no 720

DescriptionApproaching to Lansing, Iowa, from below, 1868. The Packet Kandotta right, mountainous shore left, with settlement in distance.

Marks UL: oval blind stamp, crowned shield with Bristol, L.M.

InscriptionsLL in graphite: title; LR: From Nature, by E. Whitefield

ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA November 12, 1953